DustinJean
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2011
- Messages
- 144
I've been reading up on here for a few weeks now at everybody's restore projects etc. and figured i would go ahead and get mine started since im starting to order my products to get more into it to get it ready for next season.
Guess ill start off with a story of how i came about this boat, Me and my wife have been searching local forums, craigslist etc. trying to find deals on projects needing a new block, blown head gasket, etc. For about a year or so now we've been searching but im really picky after growing up with a 24ft baja; i knew i wanted at least something 20ft and with at least a 350 and nothing Volvo powered. After loosing out on a few that we couldn't get off work for etc. I started searching farther away for boats and came across this one and got a hold of the son of the owner, and his dad was a boat mechanic and bought the boat from a customer to redo the interior etc. The man had pulled the engine and out drive then before he was able to get it all back together he had three strokes and was unable to follow through with the project. The boat sat for 6 years apart before i picked it up for $1000 but had to drive 430 miles round trip. It needs stringers, transom, and a floor, and fix a few stress cracks and get a new gel-coat job, and while its apart im going to go through the engine and out drive because who wants to install the unknown and chance it? plus my dad owns a machine shop so my assembly and machine work is free just pay for parts.
my plans are as follows:
*replace the stringers
*replace the transom
*replace the floor
*gel-coat the floor and get snap in carpet made
*redo all the interior including making a new gauge panel and glove box area out of fiberglass with new gauges and toggles etc.
*rebuild the engine and go through the out drive and clean it up and replace any worn parts
*have the entire hull gel-coated after fixing all stress cracks etc.
*paint the trailer and replace the bunks and probably replace the drums with disks and get new tires for it
*install keel guard because some of the lakes i go to don't have docks
*enjoy it with my wife and friends
I will have questions along the way as I've read a lot but still have questions since im uncertain of some things due to so many different answers... it becomes confusing. I will try to keep the questions to a minimum as i know how common questions get annoying I always search first to try to get my answer, which is why i joined here. There is a lot of knowledge around here compared to other forums Ive lurked around on.
And if any of this doesn't make any sense ... im sorry its my birthday and Ive been drinking.
Guess ill start off with a story of how i came about this boat, Me and my wife have been searching local forums, craigslist etc. trying to find deals on projects needing a new block, blown head gasket, etc. For about a year or so now we've been searching but im really picky after growing up with a 24ft baja; i knew i wanted at least something 20ft and with at least a 350 and nothing Volvo powered. After loosing out on a few that we couldn't get off work for etc. I started searching farther away for boats and came across this one and got a hold of the son of the owner, and his dad was a boat mechanic and bought the boat from a customer to redo the interior etc. The man had pulled the engine and out drive then before he was able to get it all back together he had three strokes and was unable to follow through with the project. The boat sat for 6 years apart before i picked it up for $1000 but had to drive 430 miles round trip. It needs stringers, transom, and a floor, and fix a few stress cracks and get a new gel-coat job, and while its apart im going to go through the engine and out drive because who wants to install the unknown and chance it? plus my dad owns a machine shop so my assembly and machine work is free just pay for parts.
my plans are as follows:
*replace the stringers
*replace the transom
*replace the floor
*gel-coat the floor and get snap in carpet made
*redo all the interior including making a new gauge panel and glove box area out of fiberglass with new gauges and toggles etc.
*rebuild the engine and go through the out drive and clean it up and replace any worn parts
*have the entire hull gel-coated after fixing all stress cracks etc.
*paint the trailer and replace the bunks and probably replace the drums with disks and get new tires for it
*install keel guard because some of the lakes i go to don't have docks
*enjoy it with my wife and friends
I will have questions along the way as I've read a lot but still have questions since im uncertain of some things due to so many different answers... it becomes confusing. I will try to keep the questions to a minimum as i know how common questions get annoying I always search first to try to get my answer, which is why i joined here. There is a lot of knowledge around here compared to other forums Ive lurked around on.
And if any of this doesn't make any sense ... im sorry its my birthday and Ive been drinking.
